Typology of digital leadership roles tasked with integrating new technologies into teaching: Insights from metaphor analysis. Issue 1 (1st January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar; Blau, Ina
• Is Part Of: Journal of research on technology in education. Volume 54:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 92
• Page End: 107
• Publication Date: 2022-01-01
• Subjects: Metaphor analysis -- digital leadership typology -- ICT in education -- island of innovations -- comprehensive innovation -- school communities of innovation; Computer-assisted instruction -- Periodicals; Educational technology -- Periodicals; Internet in education -- Periodicals; Distance education -- Periodicals; 371.3305
• DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2020.1809035
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1539-1523

Abstract

Abstract: This research explored how digital leaders, being teachers responsible for integrating technologies into teaching, envisaged their roles. Bottom-up content analysis of metaphors from 55 digital leaders revealed a typology describing them as change agents across three 'extent' and two 'depth' dimensions. Most leaders described the extent of change associated with their role consistently with the Islands of Innovation and Comprehensive Innovation frameworks, rather than the broader School Communities of Innovation approach. Most metaphors reflected superficial change rather than fundamental change. Although the digital leader role was created to spur innovative change, this is not how most educational practitioners envisage it.